Seminars

A list of seminars and webinars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases. Joining links will be updated as they are made available.

Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - MAPS technology and its use in vaccine development

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025

Time: 12 pm to 1pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speaker:  Dr Yingjie Lu, Research Associate, Division of Infectious Diseases, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Host: Professor Debby Bogaert

Institute of Ecology & Evolution seminar - Integrating ecological and historical data into population genetic inferences: from Mo'orea fishes to Mascarene birds

Date: Thursday 20 November 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 1, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM.  Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Stefano Mona, Université PSL, Paris

Host: Simon Martin

Monday Seminar Series - Meiotic recombination: Coordinating formation and repair of DNA breaks

Date: Monday 24 November 2025

Time: 12.05 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1

Speaker: Prof. Matt Neale, University of Sussex

Host: Adele Marston, ICB

The Edinburgh Microbiology Forum Seminar Series - Transmission of Klebsiella pneumoniae (and its plasmids) in a 'One-Health' context: Implications for the spread of antibiotic resistance and virulence

Date: Tuesday 25 November 2025

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: The Roslin Institute, Basement seminar room, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 333 233 728 740 39. Passcode: Bm7t5sS9

Speaker: Ed Feil, University of Bath

Host: Jamie Gorzynski

Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - Unlocking CNS-specific mechanisms of antifungal immunity

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025

Time: 12 pm to 1pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speaker: Dr Rebecca Drummond, Institute of Immunology & Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham

Host: Dr Laura McCulloch

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Sean Stankowski, University of Sussex

Host: Konrad Lohse

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - The sex lives of malaria parasites

Date: Thursday 27 November 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Arthus Talman, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Host: Various

Linnean Society of London and The University of Edinburgh Lecture - Busy ‘bout the Tree of Life: genome sequencing of biodiversity

Date: Thursday 27 November 2025

Time: 6 pm to 8 pm

Location: Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Doorway 3, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place Edinburgh EH8 9AG

Speaker: Mark Blaxter, Sanger Institute

Registration: Please register to attend via Eventbrite link

Mark's lecture will be followed by questions from the audience, and refreshments afterwards. The talk is free to attend and open to all! 

Monday Seminar Series - Shuffling the deck: How chromosomes pair and recombine in meiosis

Date: Monday 1 December 2025

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1

Speaker: Dr Simone Köhler - EMBL, Barcelona

Host: Dhanya Cheerambathur, ICB

Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - Metabolic pathway defects in hepatocytes and hepatic stellate cells: their role in liver cancer progression

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 10 am to 11 am

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speaker: Dr Hyon-Seung Yi, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Korea

Host: Professor Prakash Ramachandran

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - protozoan - crypto genetic screens

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Bishara Marzook, The Francis Crick Institute

Host: Andrew Maclean

Easter Bush Seminar Series - Transforming the Debate about livestock systems transformation

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 1.30 pm

Location: the Roslin Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG

Speaker: Dominic Moran GAAFS, TRADE

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Nelly Olova, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

Host: Internal

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Winter Lecture 2025 - Fragments of a life in HIV research

Date: Thursday 4 December 2025

Time: 5.30 - 6.30 pm (Closing drinks reception from 6.30 pm)

Location: Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Doorway 3 Edinburgh EH8 9AG

Speaker: Prof Graham Hart, University College London

Registration: Please register to attend on Eventbrite

Host: Edinburgh Infectious Diseases

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Protozoan diseases of cattle

Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Liam Morrison, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian

Hosts: Achim Schnaufer/K Matthews

Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - Evolution of the plague bacillus, a pandemic pathogen that shaped human history

Date: Wednesday 14 January 2026

Time: 12 pm to 1 pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speaker: Dr Javier Pizarro-Cerda, Pasteur Institute, Paris

Host: Jose Vazquez-Boland

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 14 January 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Simon Boitard, CBGP Montpellier

Host: Matthew Hartfield

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Winter Session

Date: Thursday 22 January 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 1 April 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, UAB Barcelona

Host: Simon Martin

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Spring Session

Date: Thursday 30 April 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Summer Session

Date: Thursday 11 June 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

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